Browsing Political Science - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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The ABM debate: strategic defense and national security.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969) -
After postmodernity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Agency capitalism : the logic of managed competition in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Alcohol as fuel in Brazil : an alternative energy policy and politics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
America's reluctant allies : the genesis of the political-military cultures of Japan and West Germany
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
The analysis of hostage negotiation through a novel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982) -
And the truth shall make you free : the international norm of truth-seeking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The theoretical question this dissertation addresses is how do international norms emerge and spread. The theory I propose focuses on changes in the ideational content of norms and on the international agents who facilitate ... -
Anti-orthodox styles and the charismatic tradition in China as revealed in three popular novels.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973) -
Armed forces, states and threats : civil-military institutions and military power in modern democracies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Two longstanding questions preoccupying political scientists, military officers and policymakers alike are how should and how do political leaders interact with military professionals? This thesis argues that historic ... -
Associative activism : organizing support for foreign workers in contemporary Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Japan is a country known for its suspicion of foreigners, but Japanese citizens have established non-government organizations to support illegal foreign migrants. The problems and conditions of illegal foreign workers are ... -
Authority in the Japanese organization.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970) -
Ballot box and tinder box : can electoral engineering save multiethnic democracy?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The objective of this dissertation is to systematize the existing hypotheses in the electoral engineering literature and to test them in a set of selected case studies in order to answer a central question: does the electoral ... -
Banking on the environment : multilateral development banks and environmental policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)The dissertation is a comparative study of three multilateral development banks (MDBs)-the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and European Investment Bank (EIB)-and their struggles to ... -
Bankruptcy, guns or campaigns : explaining armed organizations' post-war trajectories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This project seeks to explain what happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords. Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent socio-political entities (political parties or civic associations)? ... -
Banks and the state in Germany : the critical role of subnational institutions in economic governance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
Between adaptation and resistance : labor responses to globalization in France
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation aims at accounting for labor responses to globalization in France. It addresses this issue through a comparative study of two labor organizations-the French Democratic Labor Confederation (CFDT) and the ... -
Between global flows & territorial control : the state, tourism development, and the politics of reterritorialization in the Middle East
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation presents a new type of theory about the impact of increased transnational capital flows on state building processes. Most of the political science literature about globalization has been focused on debating ... -
Between rhetoric and reality : explaining the Russian Federation's nuclear force posture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This dissertation proposes and evaluates the performance of three theories that aim to explain Russia's nuclear force posture choices since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two are rooted in concepts of inter-state ... -
Beyond the blue horizon : the role of industry in global environmental politics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Beyond the letter of the law : transforming labor institutions and regulations in Argentina
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation analyzes the factors that lead to the transformation of labor regulations and institutions after the opening of previously closed economies, using the case of Argentina as a "crucial case". In the 1990s, ...
